English

Noun

waivode ‎(plural waivodes)

1. Alternative form of voivode
   • 1807, William Coxe, History of the House of Austria, Volume 1, Part 2, page 682,

     On the elevation of Stephen Bathori to the throne of Poland, his brother Christopher succeeded him as waivode of Transylvania, and dying in 1582, left an infant son, Sigismund, under the protection of the Porte.

   • 1825, Tertius T C. Kendrick, The Travellers, Volume 1, page 79,

     My father fell a victim to the rapacity of the Waivode, who insinuated this charge against him in order to possess himself of the lands belonging to my parent.

   • 1833, Adolphus Slade, Records of Travels in Turkey, Greece, &c. and of a Cruise in the Black Sea, with the Capitan Pasha, in the years 1829,1830, and 1831, Volume 2, page 216,

     The Turkish waivode resides in it — a personage with little real authority, who may be considered in the light of a referendee, or of a gate that a man puts up in his own road to establish his claim thereto.